White Wing Publishing House

White Wing Publishing House

The Can’t Miss Cure for Biblical Illiteracy        

 I have good news, and I have bad news.

The Bad News: It’s been said over and over again that we are facing an immense problem of biblical illiteracy in our churches and amongst our youth.

 The Good News: We have a surefire cure for this dilemma.

Do you remember what you were taught in Sunday school? I do.

I was raised in Sunday school. Each week my teacher would pull out her curriculum and teach us about the next Bible truth or story. Those lessons came from a planned, dated curriculum that enabled me to have an excellent, balanced diet of biblical truths. This is the type of biblical teaching we believe in at White Wing Publishing House and One Accord Resources.

Our HeartShaper material is set up for ages 0-12. From our curriculum, your children receive a balanced diet of biblical truth that enables them to know and understand God and the Bible thoroughly by their early teen years. Our curriculum is planned out years in advance, and each quarter and topic builds on the previous quarter and topic. In fact, you can check out BRAND NEW samples of all our Heartshaper material for FREE by simply clicking on this link.

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Once you get to the website just click on the HeartShaper picture on the left side of the screen. Then click "Add to Cart" and go through the normal checkout process. You will be emailed a link to download the file.

 If you’re wondering how to go about curing the dilemma of biblical illiteracy, the answer is quite simple really—start teaching the Bible in a planned way rather than haphazardly. Give your children a balanced diet. Help them move from milk to meat. One Accord Resources does much of the work for you.

One Accord Resources: the cure for biblical illiteracy.

Darren Schalk
Curriculum Editor

Sheffield native struck by lightning

A Sheffield native is recovering in an Opelika hospital after lightning struck him in the chest Saturday.
Jake Blackstock, who turned 24 Sunday, was fishing in the Opelika area when the strike happened, his mother, Cheryl Blackstock, said. Doctors expect a full recovery, she said.
Jake Blackstock, an Auburn University graduate and wildlife biologist for the university’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, was at East Alabama Medical Center on Monday, his mother said. Doctors expected to be able to release him, depending on the latest lab results.
Cheryl Blackstock and her husband, Noah Blackstock, have been staying at the hospital with their son since the incident occurred. She said doctors told them their son is fortunate to have survived.
“They ran a lot of tests about his heart because he was directly hit in the chest,” she said. “They said if it had been 1-2 inches a little lower, it would have gotten his heart directly. We fully give God credit for protecting him and keeping him safe.”
She said Jake Blackstock told her it was raining, but not hard, when he was on his boat on a lake.
“The sky had gotten just a little bit dark,” Cheryl Blackstock said. “He never heard any thunder, never saw a flash of light or anything. The next thing he knew, he woke up in the middle of the boat. He doesn’t know how long he was unconscious.”
She said he called her while in the boat. “He told me he didn’t know what had happened, but something was wrong,” she said. “We live hours away in Sheffield, so you can imagine our panic.”
She is thankful he didn’t fall out of the boat. “He could have fallen in the water but landed in the boat.”
Jake Blackstock still has a great deal of back pain and also is hurting in his chest, Cheryl Blackstock said.
The hair on his chest was burned.
“Considering what could have been, he seems to be doing well,” she said. “All of his heart tests came back very good.”
Physicians did an electrocardiogram and blood work on Jake Blackstock. They also saw the streak and noticed his blood pressure, which usually runs low, was high, Cheryl Blackstock said.
“All of that told them it was a lightning strike,” she said.
Jake Blackstock doesn’t remember much about Saturday night and Sunday, his mother said Monday.
He was somewhat confused Sunday and kept asking if he was at Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield. He had what doctors called “cardiac confusion,” which caused temporary short-term memory loss, but that condition seemed to be going away.
“He’s much more with it today,” she said. “His memory is much better.”
She said the lightning left a streak that runs down his trunk to his left hip, where the bolt left his body.

“He has a jagged mark, almost like a lightning bolt looks,” Cheryl Blackstock said.  From Times Daily

Assembly News

Assembly News

2014 ASSEMBLY RESERVATIONS—Enthusiasm is running high for the 98th International Assembly scheduled for July 30–August 3, 2014 at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida. We are expecting one of our largest crowds in years! Hotel reservations at Rosen Shingle Creek will officially open on January 2, 2014. We have a block of 1,350 rooms at our host hotel, so we should have room for everyone who wants to say at the Assembly site. For further Assembly information, please visit www.cogop.org/assembly